From:	Kevin <krugman AT nospam DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Pointers vs subscripting.
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:48:13 +0100
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Hi all,

Ive always gone to great lengths to avoid subscripting arrays and have
gone to lots of trouble to use pointers (at least in the most
frequently accessed loops, I don't usualy bother with program
initialisation things). 

I have understood that this is the quicker way of doing things.

Is this still the case or do modern compilers optimise this
automagically now ? 

nearly all of the tutorials I look at use subscripting, I guess this
is to make it easier to understand ?

I realsise that a little experimentation would probably answer this
queastion for me, but I'm posting another message here at the same
time so thought I'd just ask a quickie. I would welcome other peoples
opinion on this.

Kevin.

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